Biography

Matthue Roth

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Matthue Roth is a slam poet and the author of the novel Never Mind the Goldbergs (named a Best Book for the Teen Age by the New York Public Library and a Popular Paperback in Religion by the American Library Association) as well as Losers, Candy in Action, and Yom Kippur a Go-Go. He often lectures about being a Hasidic Jew, a punk, and a parent, even though he's still about 14 years old mentally. He has lived in Washington DC, Prague, San Francisco, Hollywood, and Jerusalem, and now mostly hangs out in New York.